Over ninety years ago, quantum physicists discovered experimentally that all matter is, in fact, not matter at all … it’s a wave. And, they discovered that when attention is given, a wave collapses into particle, thus creating form … matter. When the ancients described all reality as an illusion, they were, in fact, stating a truth that modern scientists proved thousands of years later. The ‘single slot’ and ‘double slot’ experiments were two notable examples of those quantum discoveries. In the ‘single slot’ experiment, researchers made a box and placed a tiny hole in one side, and a tiny hole in the opposite side. Inside the box, they lined the walls with a photo-like filament that could record trackings, or “footprints,” when anything interacted with it. They then shot a particle of light (a photon) into one of the holes. What emerged through the hole on the opposite side was a particle of light. However, what amazed the researchers, was when they opened the box they found trackings (footprints) along the filament lined walls of the box that indicated the movement of a wave. In other words, the particle, once in the box, and out of the attention of the observer, reverted to its natural state … a wave. It collapsed into a particle when attention was given as it emerged from the hole on the opposite side of the box. In the ‘double slot’ experiment, researchers made a box with two tiny holes in one side, and a single tiny hole in the opposite. When the photon was shot into the single hole, it emerged as two particles, one from each of the holes on the opposite side. What makes this so remarkable is the fact that you cannot divide a single particle into two particles. Where did the second particle come from? The scientists concluded that it resulted from the attention, and intention, given by the observer … the scientists themselves. In other words, the wave responded by collapsing into two particles due to not only the attention given by observer, but also the observers intention. What can we conclude from this?All reality is a wave (illusion) made real (form) based on the attention, and intention, given it. Everything in our experience (reality) is, in truth, a wave … it becomes real to us, physical (particle), when we give it attention. What we experience is also a product of our intention. What we intend something to be, whether we are conscious of it or not, will determine what we give attention to. And, as a result, what we experience. Let’s put it this way. You are sitting in a room. Everything outside this room, everything outside your experience is, in fact, a wave … it’s not form, it’s a wave. Only when you give attention does the wave become real to you because you collapsed the wave into particle. When you sleep at night, everything, including you, is in its natural state … a wave. You are not conscious. You are unconscious. You are not giving attention to anything; therefore, everything is a wave. Your dreams are not form. They are information emerging from your unconscious, filtered through the patterns of your subconscious, to create the stories you experience while sleeping. When you awake, the wave becomes a form (reality) because you now give it attention. “But wait,” you say. “My husband reading next to me is still in three-dimensional form even though I’m asleep, isn’t he?” That’s true … for him … because he is awake and giving attention to himself, and the room, and whatever else he’s giving attention to. But to you, he’s no longer form. He’s more real ... he’s non-dimensional wave. You’re asleep. You are not giving him attention. You are not collapsing the wave into particle. Wave is real. Particle, our perceived reality, is illusion. Again, as the ancients once taught, our reality is an illusion … a real illusion that we make real so we can interact with it. Our reality is really a ‘make believe’ story. We make it (collapse the wave) and believe it to be true. We give our reality attention and meaning: Everything in our reality … no exceptions. This is how we, as a consciousness in three-dimensional form, exist in a three-dimensional illusion. To make reality real for us we need materials from which to craft that reality. These materials consist of our beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings, choices, and decisions. All reality for us is glued together by these components. Change your reality, change these components. Your reality is really a story, a play, you convince yourself is real. The story (the play) is not real, but you believe it is. Make believe. Nothing in your reality … nothing … is what you think it is. You give it belief in accordance to what you give attention to, and the intention and meaning you give it. If your play is that of victimhood, the reality you experience is that of victim. You are not, in truth, a victim, but your attention on victim, and the intention behind it, and the meaning it holds for you, make it so. Change the story and you change your reality. But to do this you must change the attention you give to it, the intention behind it, as well as the meaning is holds for you. You must also change the beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings, choices, and decisions you are still holding onto around the victim story. When a client comes to a therapist’s office, it is important for the therapist to know that whatever the client is saying is just a story the client is making real for him/her self … nothing more. Challenge the story. It’s not what’s real. Its make-believe … real make-believe, that’s true … but make-believe, nevertheless. If the therapist buys into the story, he/she is doing nothing but enabling the problem … buying into the illusion. The problem is the ‘why’ of the story, not the story itself. Change the story by addressing the ‘why’ of it. Change the ‘why’ of the story and you can rewrite it. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a story. It’s not real. If you are living the Hamlet story, attend to the Hamlet within you. It’s from that inner place within you that you determine what to give attention, intention, and meaning to. Once attended, and healed by addressing the ‘why’ of it, you can write another story for yourself. Maybe this time, a love story, or a story of enchanting adventure … or both. The reality you experience will always be a story written by what you give attention to, the intention behind it, and the meaning you give it. You are making it, and you’re believing it true - make believe. But, know this, you are destined live a story that will, over time, reflect more and more the real of yourself … the very essence of the magnificence of the Truer You … that wave resonance, you truly are. But first you must be conscious of the current story(s) you’re convincing yourself is real. You must own that story(s) by attending to the ‘why’ of it. You must choose to let the old story go, and exercise the courage to do so. You must forgive yourself for having held onto it. And, you must act to engage a different outcome, one more reflective of what you discover of what’s truer in yourself. This, my friends, is what life is about … becoming more of who you truly are with elegance and grace, with fun, and filled with abundance. All are destined for this … later, if not sooner. Living a life of freedom. Living who you truly are. Living and expanding always into more. As always, it’s your call. So, what’s your story?